Description: Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) need...
Brief description: Nancy Rottle, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, USA. She has over two decades of landscape architecture professional experience and has been teaching since 2001. Her recent scholarship, including the co-authored book Ecological Design, has focused on the application of theory and new practices to regenerate the health of urban and urbanizing environments.
Review Quotes:
"The book should serve to initiate and renew efforts toward better watershed management, but the text also has broader implications for other environmental issues. Students and professionals will find it a useful work, as will community organizations and the general public." --Joshua F. Walter, ASLA, an associate professor of landscape architecture at North Dakota State University, Landscape Architecture
"France brings together perspectives from innovators in watershed management to introduce the diversity of sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological tools needed to implement watershed management in the real world. The editor's section overviews and responses to each chapter link ideas presented to other chapters and sections of the book. Each chapter includes discussion questions and suggestions for activities, useful for both students and practitioners." --Scitech Book News